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Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/april1099/benbarren.com/wp-includes/theme.php on line 1109Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » i am luvn the flying lotus sound

“DON DRAPER OR DICK WHITMAN I AIN’T. I WASN’T A MADISON AVENUE AD MAN IN 1963, BUT GOOGLE™ AND FLICKR™ DID DELETE MY BLOG AND PHOTOS IN 2008 SO WHY NOT DOCUMENT MY LIFESTREAM HERE; HIRED GUN / ENTREPRENEUR :)”

There are the artists that the Kanye’s take their loops from and create pop monsters; Kanye lifted from Daft Punk who stole the loop in turn from another artistwhose name I dont even know. But outside of packaging, there is the original artist. Even if it’s an electronic artist where various sounds or samples have been fused to create a new whole. Heck google is a remix of other people’s content. And Flying Lotus, which I uncovered in Pitchfork’s awesome Top 50 2008 albums, which I keep going thru and have at least 1/5th of the albums now (u can actually download the top 50 as 4 files thx to an enterprising piratebayer) Anyway, hearing Flying Lotus for first time today - it reminds me when I first heard DJ Krush on the Mo Wax label, then DJ Shadow, James Lavelle, Portishead etc That ended up being the whole Trip Hop sound out of Bristol, UK.

“It says something about the depth and cohesiveness of Steven Ellison’s deconstructed hip-hop opus Los Angeles that, unlike most other entries on this list, it has no clear standout. In fact, it’s almost impossible to choose one favorite song. Like the melting black rubber that adorns its cover, the record’s pieces twist and mutate, colliding or bleeding into one another in intricate patterns that are best absorbed in the wider context of the whole LP. Alongside the crackling beats that recall the great J Dilla, FlyLo conceals his complex rhythms in low-key, sometimes gentle arrangements that can lull the listener into a blunted haze. Take a sober listen and you’ll discover a forward-thinking producer who, like Aphex Twin before him, uses disassembled and reformatted digital elements to create some seriously next-level shit. And the album’s three subsequent L.A. EPs find him looking even further ahead, putting his transformative spin on other genres such as dubstep. If this really is the future of hip-hop, we’re in pretty good hands.”

Check out Flying Lotus non MySpace Warp Records like home page. Great artwork - isnt it the way that great artists are followed by Great Artists!